Mandar Apte

UI/UX Designer from Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

Category: Tutorials

Free Tutorials

  • Using iCloud features to sync iPhone messages with Mac.

    Prerequisites:

    1. 1. I assume you have added your primary and same Apple ID / iCloud Account on your respective Mac and iPhone.
    2. You have enabled iCloud Sync for Messages App on your iPhone and Mac in iCloud Settings.
    3. You are using the latest release of the macOS operating system, the newest iOS operating system and the Safari Browser.

    Once the above prerequisites are met, we can proceed further…

    Note: You can autofill security codes from your iPhone to Safari on Mac. This is Safari’s only feature.

    To set up Text Message Forwarding on your iPhone, follow the below steps:

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  • Here is how to fix the error: ‘The operation can’t be completed because an item with the name “Photos Library” already exists.’

    This error appears when completing the action of copying or moving a file or folder to any destination. It explains that a file with the same name already exists in that destination folder. It may be a hidden file even if you have deleted it.

    I suggest you follow the steps below to eliminate this error and problem.

    Note: First things first, before moving forward backup your Mac with Time Machine

    Step 01: Open Finder and go to the destination folder where you are copying files or folder

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  • How can you still receive calls when bedtime and sleep mode (Do Not Disturb) are turned on on your Apple iPhone and Apple Watch?

    I just activated the Apple iOS Bedtime and Sleep features for my iPhone and Apple Watch.

    But you may notice one thing: once your Sleep time starts, your iPhone stops ringing for incoming calls.

    So here is how to turn off the silent incoming call feature…

    Step 01: Go to your settings app on your iPhone

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  • How to import iTunes Music Library into Apple Music after a clean install of macOS Catalina on your new computer while keeping intact play counts and star ratings for respective songs and albums.

    After releasing the new macOS Catalina or any other Mac operating system, I sometimes prefer a clean install of the latest operating system on my iMac / MacBook / MacBook Pro or Mac Pro.

    I back up all of the current user home folders on external storage, such as an external hard disk or solid-state drive.

    Once the operating system is installed on ‘Macintosh HD’ and an admin user account is created on Mac, it’s time to start transferring data from the external drive to Mac’s user home folder.

    Once you have an account setup, follow these steps to transfer music.

    Step 01: Copy your old ‘iTunes’ folder to your user’s Music folder located at e.g. User > Music > iTunes

    Step 02: Hold down the ‘Option’ key while opening the Apple Music app from the dock or application folder. You will be presented with a dialogue box called ‘Choose Music Library. ‘ Now click on the ‘Choose Library’ button.

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  • If your Mac intermittently drops the TP-Link Router’s Wi-Fi Network Connection, here is a fix.

    I know it happened to me when I purchased a new TP-Links router. But after setting up the router with my ISP (Internet Service Provider), my Mac / iMac / MacBook / MacBook Pro / MacBook Air / Mac Mini started dropping connection intermittently every 5 minutes or every 2 minutes.

    After trying everything, here is a list of settings I used to get a stable connection from my router to my Mac.

    Step 01: Sign in to your Router’s Admin Page

    Step 02: Navigate to Wireless or Advanced > Wireless > Wireless Settings

    Step 03: Uncheck ‘Smart Connect’. i.e. Disable the Smart Connect Feature.

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  • Resolve Cloudflare’s ‘Invalid Domain’ error while adding a new site.

    Background:

    Cloudflare is a good web service that provides CDN, Caching, HTML – JavaScript – CSS Minifying and security from DDOS attacks free of cost.

    However, you must add your domain to Cloudflare to use this service.

    Interaction is simple. At the top of your dashboard’s navigation bar, there is a prominent button called ‘Add Site’. Clicking it transfers you to the next page, where you can copy-paste your website’s URL.

    If you are getting an error like ‘Invalid Domain’ while adding your website to Cloudflare, use this trick to bypass this error.

    If you are copy-pasting the URL with the http suffix, then you will get an error:

    // You will get error
http://yourdomain.com

    Then you have to enter your domain without http or www, and It should look like this:

    // Success
yourdomain.com

    The ‘Invalid Domain’ error should be resolved by now.

    I hope it helps.

    Thanks & Regards
    Mandar Apte

  • Stop email notifications for WordPress Theme and Plugin Updates.

    With the WordPress 5.5 release, you may have experienced new random daily emails you may have received for every WordPress self-hosted theme and plugin update.

    Here is how to stop email notifications for theme and plugin updates:

    Copy the code below in your domain theme’s functions.php file… It will look something like this…

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  • Repair User Home Folder Permissions for Mac

    I will explain how to repair your Mac’s Home Folder Permissions. This will fix any annoying repeated Finder, iTunes / Music, or application issues on your Mac.

    Follow these steps to reset permissions:

    Step 01:
    Turn on or restart your Mac and immediately press and hold ‘Command (⌘) R’ to start up from macOS Recovery.

    Step 02:
    Enter the firmware password or administrator password if prompted on your Mac.

    Step 03:
    Choose Utilities > Terminal from the menu bar when you see the macOS Utilities window.

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  • Programmatically identify device type iOS, iPadOS & macOS Catalyst.

    If you are developing a macOS catalyst app, you may be wondering how to conditionally write code specifically for iOS, iPad OS, or the macOS 10.15 catalyst app.

    Here is how to do it.

    Use the code below to declare specifically written code, which will compile only for iOS and iPadOS.

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  • Set UINavigation Bar Large Title Text Foreground Colour.

    Here is how to set UINavigation Bar Large Title Text Colour (Foreground Colour) in iOS 11, 12, 13 and above,

    Declare Navigation Bar Title Text & Large Title Settings like this in your View Controller’s ViewDidLoad() Method:

    self.navigationItem.title = "Home"
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.prefersLargeTitles = true
self.navigationController?.navigationItem.largeTitleDisplayMode = .automatic

    Now write the below line inside ViewDidLoad() to get the Large Title Foreground colour as White Colour like this:

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